Eudora Welty House - Jackson, Mississippi

Eudora Welty House - Jackson, Mississippi

This literary house museum is the home of Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize winning author, who lived in Jackson in this house for over 76 years.  The Tudor Revival house features high ceilings and a central stairwell filled with light from the hallway windows upstairs.

Welty always returned to her home to write her novels after her extensive travels studying people and gaining the ideas to write about.  It was in this house that Welty entertained friends from around the world such as Elizabeth Bowen, Robert Penn Warren, Katherine Anne Porter, Gore Vidal and other noted writers and met with interviewers and reporters.

The house is filled with the things of the Welty family to share her life with those that are interested in the life of this gifted author.

Location: 1119 Pinehurst Street, Jackson Mississippi

Tours: Wednesdays through Fridays at 9, 11, 1 and 3.

Admission $5 Adults; $3 for Students and free for children under six.

Welty’s birthday was April 13, and when the 13th of each month falls on a day the house is open the admission is free.

Phone: 601-353-7762